The internet & computers

[Jordy]

Just wondered how long everyone has had internet and computer access.

I was just looking through some broadband records and we've had broadband since January 2003, though we trialled dial-up a little in 2002. Our first family computer would of been in about the year 2000-2001 and it was a Dell XPS Windows 98 computer (XPS sounds good these days, back in the day it was far from it). We weren't that early of family's to get a computer and get online, but we weren't really late either.

Yourself? :)

[Agnostic Bear]

8-10 years-ish.

[Zaub]

I've had the same static IP since 1996.

[Andys]

I remember having it when I was around 7/8 I think.
we had AOL dial up lmao.

[PaulMacC]

Around 1999, I had Windows 1998, then 2000.

[Luke]

I had an IBM Aptiva PC. I still remember the specs:
64mb ram
30gb HDD
800mhz processor :D

We had BT Openworld Dial Up thing lol
Later we switched to AOL BB.

We got computer around 98-99

[Hayd93]

HP windows 98 pc. Then we had 56k dial up then after a year upgraded to 128k ISDN. We the got 1mb bt broadband and now 8mb bt broadband.

[cocaine]

1998, Windows '98, Dial-up :D

PC was a Packard Bell, probably had 128MB RAM.

Then around 2002 we got an Acer laptop, very crappy, 256MB RAM, dial-up (no wireless) :'(

Then 2006 I got an Acer Desktop - very good, lasted me for a few years.

Then in June this year I got a Dell Laptop, tis excellent.

[Recursion]

I remember as far back as our ISDN line... slow ol' days! I had a Fujistu PC with 64mb RAM and I can't remember the CPU :P

But before I was born we had some dragon computer... one of the first commercially available.

[Technologic]

My first computer was in like 2000 when i was 7 and i think we've been online since around the same time

[alexxxxx]

first family computer in 1995. first got internet about 1999 i think, dial up for AGES.

[DrLacero]

I first used a computer in 1996 and first used the internet in 2000. Long time, wow.

[Wayne]

We've had a computer since about 1998 and we've had AOL for about 8 years. Started on dial up and about 3 years later switched to AOL broadband which I'm still on now.

[Technologic]

I have no idea what our ISP in the old house was (1998-1999) but we were on AOL from '99 untill they turned **** and we switched to virgin about 6 nmonths ago

[CurtisKenny]

My dad's had a pc for as long as i remember so i'd say 13 years + ? (im 16)

ive had a pc for around 7 years i'd think? (maybe longer)

and we've had internet for ages. We used to have dial up from an isp i have forgotten the name of, then we went to ntl when broadband first became available

[joshuar]

We had a computer in 1994 or before, we had Windows 3.1 on it before we upgraded to a slightly better machine in 1996 with Windows 95 on it. We kept that machine until about 2001 and got a custom built machine with Windows ME on it, we still have that case but have slowly upgraded the parts over the years, it now runs Windows XP, but is slow by todays standards.

We got the internet in 2001 with the new computer, started on BT, then we got Liberty Surf (which was really popular as it was £20 for a year, took about an hour to get online cause of the demand), then we eventually got NTL Broadband in early 2004 and then moved onto Sky Broadband which is where we are now :)

[xxMATTGxx]

I can't remember. But I used to have Windows 95/98/ and first had dial up. Then we had 2000/ME. Firs time we got broadband was roughly around when we moved into our new houses and got XP :P

[Hypertext]

First was in 1998, we had a 1995 windows box.

[GommeInc]

Loads lol. There was a Packard Bell PC which was ME, another Packard Bell PC which was ME, a Dell with 98 which used dial-up (I think) and a few Amigas. I think there was a 95 PC too, somewhere. I remember being 4 and having a PC (Amiga). That was fun :)

[Recursion]

DOS Anyone?

[Hypertext]

DOS Anyone?

My mom did. She got through college with it :D

[xxMATTGxx]

I used to play on one of these at my grandads, he still has it!

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Pics/BBCDE1.JPG

[Flisker]

Urrm, I had one of them old compaq flat desktop things where the monitor sits on top of the PC, It had 95 on it and my mum and dad had internet access on their PC's and me and my sister didnt have any on it but we still had our computers to mess around on xD.

[Zak]

Not until recently, around 2002 I think.

[DaveTaylor]

Built my first computer with my dad when i was 8, had been using one since i was about 5 though as dad got me into it. had windows 95!

[The Professor]

First one we got was a Tiny in 1999 I think which ran Windows 98. Had the same PC up until 2003 (upgraded to ME in 2002 I think). Got NTL Broadband on it around 2000. Got my old Dell Dimension in 2004 with AOL Dial up, had 256mb RAM and 80GB HDD, and broadband a couple of months later. Got my Packard Belll iPower in February which I still got now and has 2GB RAM and 500GB HDD, seems like such a luxury now :p

[Hiro]

Got my first in 1996 with Windows 95. Then upgraded to 98 when it came out. Then, when XP came out, we got that. xD
AOL dial-up ftw.

[Shawnstra]

First computer: Windows 95, hp I think.

Dial up: Probably in early 2000s, about 2002
Broadband: 2004 or so.

[Swinkid]

I used to play on one of these at my grandads, he still has it!

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Pics/BBCDE1.JPG
Rubber key spectrum?

[Plank]

Had computer & internet access since we got a windows 95 computer.

[L?KE]

I remember having a computer when I was tiny, don't remember specs but we were on freeserve dial-up lmao.

My dad took up broadband as soon as he could get his hands on a good deal (tightwad) ;)